Abstract
“Abolitionist teaching is not sustainable without joy” (Love 2019: 120). We propose a joyful classroom activity that recreates the game “Monopoly” to bring to the forefront the lived experiences of people in late racial capitalism. This re-creation is an exercise in which undergraduate students rewrite both the characters to represent intersectional identities in the United States and the chance cards to represent the contemporary context. Students then play the game with these characters and end with a reflection on the lesson. In this way students are able to exercise prior course learning on identity, privilege, inequality, intersectionality, social stratification, organizing, solidarity, and political power.
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Deschamps, Faith; Mullins, Caroline; Sumoza, Elizabeth; Hildebrand, Vanessa; and Kim, Veda Hyunjin
(2025)
"Decolonizing Monopoly: Intersectionality, Abolition, and Fun,"
Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 6:
Iss.
4, Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol6/iss4/9